Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" π€© Stay tuned for updates π
06.08.2025 23:16 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Also presented my ongoing research on #metaphors in #MachineTranslation, with @karakanta.bsky.social Katinka Zeven and Mayra Nas, "Translating Metaphors in Literature with AI" π€© #ESTcongress was huge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain has been buzzing with so many new ideas β¨ #EST2025Leeds
07.07.2025 07:23 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A week ago I presented our ongoing project on "Translating Metaphors in Wine Language: Challenges and Strategies for Global Engagement" with the fabulous Allison Creed at the #ESTcongress #EST2025Leeds and we got to try several Zeno nolo wines π₯ #Translation #Metaphor #WineCommunication
07.07.2025 07:17 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Alina Karakanta on a podium of Geneva university presenting a blue-white slide with the title βMetaphors in Literary machine translation: Close but no cigar?β
How do SOTA MT systems translate metaphors in literary MT? Just presented our work with @agdorst.bsky.social and Mayra Nas to a lively audience at #MTSummit2025
@leidentranslat1.bsky.social
25.06.2025 12:22 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Vertaalapps gaan de mist in met metaforen en dat gaat ons allemaal aan
Computers vinden het moeilijk om metaforen te vertalen. Taalkundige Lettie Dorst onderzoekt wanneer dit tot problemen leidt.
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Dit kan leiden tot miscommunicatie in belangrijke sectoren zoals journalistiek, onderwijs, zorg & rechtspraak, vertelt @agdorst.bsky.social, taalkundige @unileiden.bsky.social aan @trouw.nl β¬οΈ
@leidentranslat1.bsky.social @ortv.bsky.social
28.05.2025 07:17 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Artikel in Trouw over mijn onderzoek naar #metaforen in #machinevertaling π€© www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/l...
23.05.2025 19:48 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
With the fabulous @jdaems.bsky.social @leenasalmi @mtkopon.bsky.social
07.04.2025 11:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π’New publication!
πWe investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
π‘We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
π see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc
07.04.2025 11:48 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Congratulations! π₯
04.04.2025 12:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
@jeannettel.bsky.social @bissieanderson.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social hope your moving house was smooth!
26.03.2025 09:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Four researchers smiling on a wooden bridge in a park
Eight researchers posing smiling in a university room
Building and crossing bridges with Bissie Anderson, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Matteo Fuoli, Ruth Page, Merten Reglitz and Jack Grieve at University of Birmingham πΈ
Our turn in May @leidenhumanities.bsky.social with @tomasdodds.bsky.social @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social
26.03.2025 09:07 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
What a blast! πSome great ideas for collaborative work π«Ά
25.03.2025 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sigh.
22.03.2025 18:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My articles for #Metaphor and the Social World and #Perspectives are also thereβ¦ guess @johnbenjamins.bsky.social gave #Meta access to all journals? π€¨
22.03.2025 10:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Emily M. Bender en Alex Hanna: βZeg nee tegen de AI-hypeβ
Met hun boek 'The AI Con' willen ze tonen hoe we ons kunnen verzetten tegen de hypemachine van Big Tech.
AI is een buiten alle proportie opgeklopte hype. Meer nog: het is een zwendel die vooral een beperkt clubje rijk maakt. Dat is de boodschap van onderzoekers @emilymbender.bsky.social en @alexhanna.bsky.social.
Maar: βOnderschat nooit de kracht van βneenβ zeggenβ.
14.03.2025 06:22 β π 34 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1
"According to the companyβs managers [...] the output was good enough to justify cutting rates. Unsurprisingly to the translators, the output was poor, and they ended up fixing mistakes they would never have made themselves."
Yup, we've all seen this.
#HumansNotMachines #loveyourhumantranslator
14.03.2025 13:24 β π 19 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
PhD candidate in French linguistics
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in French linguistics, starting September 2025 (1.0 fte) Project description/ Key responsibilities Cre...
We have an opening for a PhD position in French ling in Leiden. The PhD student will investigate the phonology/phonetics of one or more French-based creoles + contribute to teaching language/linguistics in the French program. Deadline: 31-3-2025. More info www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
11.03.2025 16:50 β π 13 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Memo to me: donβt forget to breathe βοΈ
07.03.2025 15:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I would love to join! No idea how this works though π
04.03.2025 15:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation).
There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
18.02.2025 11:50 β π 44 π 16 π¬ 2 π 1
When Iβm stressed (which is quite often) I try to be more like my catβ¦ I think he has being βchillβ down to an art π (and he has a flair for the dramatic)
16.02.2025 20:15 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My beautiful and talented and kind sister-in-law Roos Dros singing the beautiful poems by J.C. Bloem that my father-in-law J.J. Dros set to music β€οΈ with the Alkmaar Big Band πΆπ·π€
16.02.2025 20:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cognitive Science of Metaphor and Concepts.
Psychology Professor.
Poetics and Linguistics Association
Academic books, journals and news from the Linguistics department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, including its imprint Mouton. Posts by our editors.
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
PÀivystÀvÀ kÀÀntÀjÀ, omituinen ihmettelijÀ. Moka-Master Akatemian rehtori.
Human intelligence. BiokÀÀntÀjÀ. Luomuajattelija.
Subtitler, AV translator Fi-En-Fi.
Mostly in Finnish.
Prof. of Intercultural Crisis Communication, University College London, UK. He/him. @centras-ucl.bsky.social Director. Not a fan of social media. Constitutionally antifascist. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0057-0340). Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk
Translation Spaces is a peer-reviewed, indexed journal published biannually by John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ts
EU COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human Machine Era' - exploring the future effects of new and emerging mobile language technologies.
Peer-reviewed journal published by the Universitat AutΓ²noma de Barcelona, dedicated to translation technologies.
Diamond publishing (high-quality open access journal).
https://revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/index
Data literacy for responsible decision making. A multidisciplinary research project for reliable and responsible data use. https://www.datalit.fi/
#MachineTranslation Research Unit @ Fondazione Bruno Kessler
#nlproc #deeplearning #ai
mt.fbk.eu
Translation teacher & researcher
Researcher at @fbk-mt.bsky.social | inclusive and trustworthy machine translation | #NLP #Fairness #Ethics | she/her
News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
π Researcher in Audiovisual Translation
π₯ Film subtitler
βοΈ Sharing insights on subtitling workflows, creativity, innovation, subtitler visibility, pivot AVT, multilingualism
Interpreting Studies researcher, Associate Professor in the Department of Translation Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaΕ, Poland
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